John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

To hear, one must be silent.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.